Title:

Address:

190 University Drive, Amherst, MA 01002

Dates:

Various throughout the year

Tuition:

$2,000 double accommodation,
$2,200 single (when available)

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting, Children's Literature

Description:

Amherst Writers & Artists trains participants to lead writing groups using the AWA writing group method developed by Pat Schneider and described in her book Writing Alone and With Others (Oxford University Press, 2003). More information...

Title:

Address:

500 S. Main St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Dates:

May 16, 2008
Application Deadline: May 12, 2008

Tuition:

$100.00

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Children's Literature

Description:

The second annual Ann Arbor Book Festival Writer's Conference will be a full-day experience where attendees can hone their skills in sessions led by visiting Festival authors. Sessions may include writing in a variety of genres, the writer-editor and writer-agent relationships, crafting pitch letters, and more. More information...

Title:

Address:

936 Sir Francis Drake Blvd #306, Kentfield, CA 94904
Location: Posada de Las Monjas, Canal Street, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico (Various locations throughout the year)

Dates:

August 6-13, 2008

Tuition:

$1350, includes hotel, breakfast, airport shuttle

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

Description:

Be a travel writer, memoirist, poet, and practice describing landscapes, characters, and objects found along the way, in life and on this journey. More information...

Title:

Address:

1414 Art Center Avenue, New Smyrna Beach, FL 32168

Dates:

Ongoing. See website

Tuition:

$850 residency fee, Financial Aid is available

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting, Children's Literature

Description:

Since 1982, Atlantic Center's residency program has provided artists from all artistic disciplines with spaces to live, work, and collaborate during three week residencies. More information...

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Address:

Contact: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 154 San Angelo Drive, Amherst, VA 24521
Location: Le Moulin à Nef

Dates:

May 12-18, 2008
Application Deadline: April 21, 2008

Tuition:

$2195.00

Genres:

Fiction, Nonfiction

Description:

The Literary Lifestyle: France on 500 Words A Day; Fiction and Creative Nonfiction, an opportunity to begin an ongoing mentoring relationship with the instructor and his editor, one that will continue after the workshop has ended. More information...

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Address:

Contact: AWP Conference Services, Mail Stop 1E3, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030
2009 Location: Chicago, IL

Dates:

February 11-14, 2009
Annually Mid-Winter or Early Spring

Tuition:

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting, Children's Literature

Description:

The Annual Conference typically features 300 presentations: readings, lectures, panel discussions, and Forums plus hundreds of book signings, receptions, dances, and informal gatherings. The conference attracts more than 5,000 attendees and more than 400 publishers. More information...

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Address:

The Banff Centre, 107 Tunnel Mountain Drive, Banff, Alberta, Canada T1L 1H5

Dates:

Various programs, see website

Tuition:

N/A

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting, Children's Literature

Brief Description:

Through its own publications produced throughout the year, The Banff Centre supports contemporary art, literature, and criticism and explores the development of electronic platforms and new technologies in writing and publishing. More information...

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Address:

3187 Angell Hall, 435 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003

Dates:

May 29-June 2, 2008
Application Deadline: May 18, 2008

Tuition:

$675-$775

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

Description:

Morning workshops in poetry, fiction & nonfiction; afternoon writing, walks & talks, nature & community events; evening readings; indoor & outdoor activities More information...

Title:

Address:

Block Island Poetry Project, P.O. Box 464, Block Island, RI 02807

Dates:

April 3-May 4, 2008
Application deadline: March 31

Tuition:

Varies

Genres:

Poetry, Nonfiction

Description:

6 separately themed interactive poetry workshops which branch out into numerous other mediums and areas of interest: social action, earth medicine, mythology and wilderness, etc. More information...

Title:

Address:

Concord Poetry Center, 40 Stow Street, Concord, MA 01742

Dates:

June 27-30, 2008
July 25-28, 2008
August 22-25, 2008

Tuition:

See website

Genres:

Poetry

Description:

The Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference provides the faculty, connections, and method necessary to produce the first poetry conference realistically designed to set poets with a manuscript-in-process on a path towards publication. More information...

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Address:

YMCA, 340 Montgomery St., Syracuse, NY 13202

Dates:

Year-round

Tuition:

$12 - $265

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting

Description:

The DWC is the community center for the literary arts in the Central New York State region, and offers 15-20 visiting author readings and 30-40 creative writing workshops each year. More information...

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Address:

Program Director, 400 Grant St., P.O. Box 38,
Enterprise, OR 97828

Dates:

Fishtrap operates programs year round

Tuition:

N/A

Genres:

N/A

Description:

Fishtrap's extended programs are in service of its mission to "promote clear thinking and good writing in and about the West." More information...

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Address:

P.O. Box 74, 24 Blue Moon Road, Franconia, NH 03580

Dates:

April 25 - 27, 2008
Application Deadline: Accepting applications from December 1, 2007 until three weeks before conference begins

Tuition:

$300

Genres:

Poetry

Description:

A weekend immersion for high school poets with prompts, workshops, and readings in an early nineteenth-century inn near Robert Frost's historic home. More information...

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Address:

513 S. Presa, San Antonio, TX 78205

Dates:

Year-round programs and Summer Literary Festival

Tuition:

Varies

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

Description:

Gemini Ink nurtures writers and readers and builds community through the literary and related arts. More information...

Title:

Address:

The Gettysburg Review, Gettysburg College, 300 N. Washington Street, Gettysburg, PA 17325

Dates:

June 4-9, 2008
Application deadline: May 7, 2008

Tuition:

$685

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

Description:

The conference features small workshops led by award-winning writers who have dedicated their lives to the teaching of poetry and prose. Set in bucolic, convivial, and historic Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. More information...

Title:

Address:

President, 555 Eight Avenue, #1404, New York, NY 10018-4352

Dates:

January, April, July, September, October

Tuition:

$125 - $545 + $25 registration fee

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

Description:

Comprehensive classes are available at multiple locations in New York City and online and writingclasses.com. Classes include writing in nearly every genre. More information...

Title:

Address:

108 Holt, Hillsborough, NC 27278

Dates:

Weeks of June 16, June 30, July 14
Application deadline: April 30 for the Summer

Tuition:

$1600

Scholarships:

Discounts available

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

Description:

Heart of Provence Workshops provides an intimate setting for writing and photography workshops under the guidance of international professionals in the arts. Participants live for a week in a 16th century chateau, share wonderful meals, take excursions and hone their craft. More information...

Title:

Address:

250 Hofstra University, Hempstead NY 11549

Dates:

Summer Writing Workshop: July 7-18-2008
Children's Literature Conference: April 26, 2008

Tuition:

Summer Writing Workshop: $550 non-credit, credit students (current Hofstra credit tuition rates)
Children's Literature Conference: $99 non-member $94 SCBWI members

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting, Children's Literature

Description:

Summer Writing Workshop: Led by master writers, the Summer Writing Workshops operate on the principle that true writing talent can be developed, nutured and encouraged by writer-in-residence mentors. Through instruction, discussion, criticism and free exchange among the workshop members, writers begin to find their voice and style.
Children's Literature Conference: An opportunity for both published and aspiring writers and illustrators to gather with librarians, educators, editors, booksellers, and all others who wish to create or share good children's books. More information...

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Address:

The Hub City Writers Project, PO Box 8421, Spartanburg, SC 29305
Hub City Writers Project, 149 S Daniel Morgan Ave, Suite 2, Spartanburg, SC 29306

Dates:

Residency: June 2008-May 2009
Conference: August 3-5, 2007

Tuition:

Residency: $25 application fee
Conference: $160, add $35 for 2 nights dorm

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting

Description:

Residency: The HUB-BUB Live Free and Create program is an 11-month residency open to one creative writer and three visual artists, in Spartanburg SC. Applicants must be aged 20 to 30.
Conference: A three-day conference where participants create new material in the genres of fiction, poetry and memoir. There is a particular emphasis on place-based writing at this conference. More information...

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Address:

Contact: 241 W. 97th Street, Suite 13N, New York, NY 10025
Location: Italy

Dates:

June 14-21, 2008
Application Deadline: March, 2008

Tuition:

$1695, single supplement $350

Genres:

Fiction

Description:

Surrounded by the magical, evocative and majestic hills of Tuscany, we will work together to help all participants realize their intentions in fiction in a nurturing, honest and productive environment. Writers of all levels are welcome. More information...

Title:

Address:

Island Institute, P.O. Box 2420, Sitka, AK 99835

Dates:

September, November, January, and April each academic year
Application Deadline: April 15 each year

Tuition:

N/A Housing and $300 stipend provided for each resident

Genres:

N/A

Description:

The Island Institute's Writers' Residencies provide opportunities for four writers to each spend a month in Sitka, Alaska, pursuing their own work and getting to know this unique island community in the forested coastal mountains of Southeast Alaska. More information...

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Address:

The Kenyon Review, Walton House, 104 College Drive, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH 43022

Dates:

June 14-21, 2008

Tuition:

$1995

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

Description:

A week of intensive, daily workshops concentrating on the creation and revision of new work in small-group settings. More information...

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Address:

Contact: The Kenyon Review, Walton House, 104 College Drive, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH 43022
Location: Centro Pokkoli, Vitorchiano, Italy

Dates:

May 26-June 2, 2008
Application Deadline: March 15, 2008

Tuition:

$3,250

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

Description:

Italy workshop provides time and space for writers to practice and develop their art. Focus is on the generation of new work on location. More information...

Title:

Address:

801 3rd Corso, Nebraska City, NE 68410

Dates:

Year round
Application Deadline: March 1, 2008 and Sept. 1, 2008

Tuition:

$25 application fee

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting, Children's Literature

Description:

KHN residency program in Nebraska City, NE offers housing, studio and a weekly stipend to approximately 38 artists per year. Internationally known art center is located in a quiet midwestern town. More information...

Title:

Address:

Lighthouse Writers Workshop, 2123 Downing St., Denver, CO 80205

Dates:

Year-round and summer lit fest and retreat

Tuition:

Varies

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting

Description:

A nonprofit, independent literary center running year-round ongoing and one-day workshops, an annual Literary Festival, Writing Retreats, and Young Writers' Programs. More information...

Title:

Address:

1011 Washington Ave S, Ste 200, Minneapolis, MN, 55415

Dates:

year 'round

Tuition:

sliding fee based on household income

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting, Children's Literature

Description:

The Loft Literary Center's mission is to foster a writing community, the artistic development of individual writers and an audience for literature. More information...

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Address:

Chair, PEN Northwest, 23030 W. Sheffler Road, Elmira, OR 97437

Dates:

April through October

Tuition:

Resident performs one hour a day of routine caretaking and receives a stipend of $5,000

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting, Children's Literature

Description:

A seven-month residency, for any kind of writer at any stage of career,in a remote but comfortable cabin in the Rogue River backcountry of southwestern Oregon. $5,000 stipend. See website for complete information. More information...

Title:

Address:

The Mllay Colony for the Arts, 454 East Hill Road, Austerlitz, NY 12017

Dates:

April 1 through December 1
Application deadline: October 1

Tuition:

None

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Children's Literature

Description:

The Millay Colony for the Arts is an artists residency program in Austerlitz, New York. More information...

Title:

Address:

30 North Road, NH 03449

Dates:

May 2-4, 2008
Application Deadline: March 22, 2008

Tuition:

$325-$335

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction

Description:

A weekend retreat designed to recharge fiction writers and poets with workshops, readings, music, and nature at Boston University's idyllic Sargent Center for OUtdoor Education in Hancock, NH. More information...

Title:

Address:

Naropa University, 2130 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder, CO 80302

Dates:

New letters Conference: June 18-July 15, 2007

Tuition:

$400/week non-credit; $945/week undergraduate; $1,292/week graduate

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction

Description:

The SWP is a four-week-long convocation of students, poets, scholars, fiction writers, translators, performance artists, Buddhist teachers, musicians, printers, editors, and others working in small press publishing. In dialogue with renowned practitioners, students engage in the composition of poetry, prose fiction, cross-genre possibilities, inter-arts, translation, and writing for performance. More information...

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Address:

Center for Black Literature, Medgar Evers College, CUNY, 1650 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225

Dates:

March 28-30, 2008
Application deadline: March 15, 2008 for Early Registration

Tuition:

$60.00 for Early Registration & Talkshops

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting

Description:

The Conference convenes over 3 days and includes panel discussions, talk shops, and readings on Conference Theme: Black Readers and Writers, Transforming Our Lives, Transforming the World. More information...

Title:

Address:

5101 Rockhill Road, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO 64110-2499

Dates:

Mark Twain Workshops: June 9-27, 2008
Weekend Conference: June 27-29, 2008

Tuition:

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting

Description:

Experience a whirlwind weekend of writing: gain exposure to many genres, attend workshops in your chosen genre, and learn about marketing your work. Mark Twain Workshop meets daily for three weeks, with lectures, presentations, and workshops.More information...

Title:

Address:

PO Box 60066, Florence, MA 01062

Dates:

April 10 -13, 2008

Tuition:

$605 by February 10th, $665 after

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting, Children's Literature

Description:

3 nights and 4 days of writing and Yoga at the Alma de Mujer retreat center, located in the beautiful foothills at Lake Travis, Texas just 20 miles north of Austin. More information...

Title:

Address:

One College Blvd, Paterson, NJ 07505

Dates:

Year round

Tuition:

NA

Genres:

Poetry

Description:

Poetry Reading every 1st Saturday of the month. (From September thru May) More information...

Title:

Address:

203 W. 33rd Street, Austin, Texas 78705
P.O. Box 89, Round Top, Texas 78705

Dates:

May 2-4, 2008 (annual event; dates vary)

Tuition:

$110

Genres:

Poetry

Description:

Poetry at Round Top is a three-day festival which includes featured readings by major American poets, writing and publication workshops, panel discussions, open mic readings, conversations on craft, and music-and-word performances. The campus is the site of a world-renown classical music festival and includes more than four hundred acres of meadows, woods, ponds, herb gardens, Victorian architecture, and Roman Follies. Housing and meals are available but limited and generally filled early. More information...

Title:

Address:

56 Pine Hill Lane, Norwood, VA 24581

Dates:

all year round

Tuition:

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting, Children's Literature

Description:

The Porches Writing Retreat is open year-round. We offer days/weeks/month residencies on an individual basis. More information...

Title:

Address:

1260 N. Green Bay Road, Lake Forest, IL 60045

Dates:

Year-Round

Tuition:

$25/day$30 application fee

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting

Description:

Ragdale's residency program offers writers, visual artists, composers, and interdisciplinary artists the time and space to work on individual projects. Residencies run from 2-8 weeks in a historic home 30 miles north of Chicago year-round. More information...

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Address:

P.O. Box 6627, Santa Barbara, CA 93160

Dates:

SB Writers Conference- June 22-29, 2007 (Application Deadline: May 15, 2007)
March Poetry Conference with Phillip Levine - March 28-30, 2008

Tuition:

$625 before March 1, 2007; $825 after March 1
Young writers (ages 14-18) pay $525
March Poetry Conference: $325 commuter student, or $495 includes lodging and meals.

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting, Children's Literature

Description:

The 35-year-old Santa Barbara Writers Conference offers more than two dozen weeklong workshops along with speakers, panel discussions and other special events intended to help budding and seasoned writers improve their craft. Or experience a weekend of poetry in the Santa Barbara foothills with national Poet Laureate Ted Kooser! More information...

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Address:

Southwest Literary Center, 826 Camino de Monte Rey/A3, Santa Fe, NM 87505

Dates:

June 18-23, 2007

Tuition:

$525

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

Description:

Five days of workshops in fiction, poetry or nonfiction (limited to 12 per workshop). Afternoon talks by publishing professionals, editors or agents. Evening readings and private conferences. More information...

Title:

Address:

Seven Hills Writers' Retreat, P. O. Box 3428, Tallahassee, FL, 32315-3428

Dates:

April 2-6, 2008
Application Deadline: February 15, 2008 for reduced rate

Tuition:

$295 (late registration add $50)

Genres:

Fiction, Nonfiction, Children's Literature

Description:

Morning seminars by faculty, afternoon retreat for writing, evening gatherings for discussion and critique. More information...

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Address:

Contact: Elizabeth Kostova, P.O. Box 2655, Ann Arbor, MI 48806
Location: Ljuben Karavelov 15 Str., Sofia, Bulgaria 1142

Dates:

May 21-24, 2008
Application Deadline: Februrary 1, 2008

Tuition:

Competitive/ Full scholarship

Genres:

Fiction

Description:

Ten fiction writers will receive full scholarship including travel to Bularia: 5 Bulgarian and 5 English-speaking writers. More information...

Title:

Address:

600 White Street, Key West, FL 33040

Dates:

November 07 -April 08

Tuition:

$65-$500

Genres:

Description:

A wide range of 2-5 day workshops exploring fiction, poetry, narrative nonfiction and the culinary memoir. More information...

Title:

Address:

30 Big Red Lane, Clearmont, WY 82835

Dates:

Fall & Spring
Application Deadline: March 1 & October 1

Tuition:

NA

Genres:

N/A

Description:

THE UCROSS FOUNDATION RESIDENCY PROGRAM for the arts and literature offers residencies for 2-8 weeks. Located on a 22,000 acre working cattle ranch in the foothills of Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains, the Foundation provides individual workspace, living accommodations, uninterrupted time and the experience of the historic High Plains landscape to selected writers, artists, and composers working in all disciplines. More information...

Title:

Address:

Box 7209, English Dept., UND, Grand Forks, ND 58202

Dates:

March 25-29, 2008

Tuition:

Completely free and open to public

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting

Description:

The UND Writers Conference, now in its 39th year, is a literary festival that is completely free and open to the public. This year's conference has the theme "Revolutions," which we are exploring in political and stylistic terms. More information...

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Address:

Virginia Festival of the Book, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 145 Ednam Drive, Charlottesville, VA 22903

Dates:

March 18-22, 2009

Tuition:

Free, open to the public

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting, Children's Literature

Description:

The Virginia Festival of the Book, produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, is an annual five-day celebration of reading, authors, and book culture. Held in venues throughout historic Charlottesville and the University of Virginia, this free and open to the public event unites authors with audiences in a quaint setting just east of the Blue Ridge Mountains. More information...

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Address:

William Joiner Center, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125

Dates:

June 18-29, 2007
Application Deadline: April 15, 2007

Tuition:

$400/2 weeks; $220/1 week

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting

Description:

A one or two week workshop of working sessions and individual consultations with distinguished writers. More information...

Title:

Address:

300 Pompton Road, Atrium 232, Wayne, NJ 07470

Dates:

April 19, 2008

Tuition:

Free keynote lecture; $40.00 for workshops

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Children's Litearture

Description:

One day program includes a plenary reading/discussion on "The Literature of War," followed by two sessions of small workshops in memoir, fiction, poetry, and other areas. More information...

Title:

Address:

The Four Points Sheraton, 3400 Airport Road, Allentown, PA 18109

Dates:

March 28-29, 2008
walk-ins accepted; early bird deadline February 29, 2008

Tuition:

$120 before February 29; $135 after; discounted for members

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Children's Literature

Description:

The Write Stuff, the annual conference of the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group, offers the valuable opportunity to spend a day learning from published authors, meeting agents and editors, and networking with other writers. More information...

Title:

Address:

4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, MD 20815

Dates:

Year Round

Tuition:

N/A

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting, Children's Literature

Description:

The Writer's Center is the leading creative writers' community in the greater Washington area, and one of the largest and oldest non-academic writers centers in the country. Annually about 5,000 established and aspiring writers attend readings and participate in workshops in all genres of creative writing. More information...

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Address:

Graham School of General Studies, The University of Chicago, 1427 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637

Dates:

year-round
Application deadline: none for open enrollment courses; August 15 for certificate program

Tuition:

varies; $525 for 8-week open enrollment courses

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Children's Literature

Description:

Courses in writing fiction, creative nonfiction, journalism, screenwriting, and poetry designed for working adults and taught by writers with a gift for sharing insights into their craft. More information...

Title:

Address:

P.O. Box 540370, North Salt Lake, UT 84054-0370

Dates:

June 18-22, 2007

Tuition:

$395

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

Description:

Since 1985, Writers at Work has been bringing emerging and experienced writers together with editors, publishers, and agents at its annual summer conference. More information...